DESIGNED BY JUSTIN BUTO
NOSTALGIA BUBBLES creeps in flannel shirts gather scattered haikus and these buried instant photos old amethyst crystals that would hang like heavy willows all primary colors in this muted milky moonlight she’s a still-life flower centered perfect circle violet omens splashing on the shores of the purple river blowing nostalgia bubbles
RING OF SALT a marble sun-dial speaking so softly hidden mazes of neglected hedges stone sparrows and Roman statues the smiling hydra with Janus faces a ring of salt a force of nature this fading pantheon blue lunar phases a crown of seaweed or an astronaut helmet
ONE MILLION MANTRAS
DEER KING porcelain creatures in the dark earth our two paths crossed in the clearing white antlers are the altar wander spirit of the Deer King high exalted are your hoof prints in days we walk on broken sunlight for that moment I saw something we may meet again somewhere sometime
THEY’RE THERE the air is thick with animal spirits an infinite number of ghosts colliding and crashing or passing through each other unaware every time you inhale, insects when you breath out you divide the blanket of souls the silent hum of pollination’s past prehistoric bugs that have been extinct for hundreds of centuries under skies that no longer exist you can’t see them but they’re there buzzing
RECEIVER/TRANSMITTER the decaying nature of wet earth magic rabbit’s feet and sharks-teeth hard bop handshakes so zodiactive radio wraiths on the midnight jukebox crazy paisley free-form fashions beaded elephants on mossy mansions raccoon bones and precious stones tie dye ladies and stoned pharaohs scribbled somethings crumbling mumblings chimpanzee prince striped like a tiger
WET EARTH MAGIC
IDIOT SAVANTE
GARDE
BLACK BIOLOGY black coffee is sweet enough cathode ray tube derelicts all these bent bicycle spokes form armies of metal skeletons hawaiian tropic copper-tones earth tones and pastels banging tambourines on pine trees shaking up plant cells sometimes I wonder who wore my clothes before I did ghosts in these fabrics followed back from the thrift store